I'd rather him in the AFC.
It really doesn't matter to me when the compensation kicks in. I would say the later it is the more I want. So if we get more in 2024 than we can get in 2023 I'd take it.
Nobody wants to go through losing seasons, but I say eat the bullet and set ourselves up for the next 10 years. I don't think DA is our future so let him coach through a bad year and get our cap straightened out. It would be nice to not bargain bin shop every year we need a FA at a key position.
It would also be nice to actually be able to keep some of the players we draft and develop. We always have to let them go because our cap is so screwed up we can only afford them on their rookie deal. Like it or not, we have to go through a bad year or two in order to set ourselves up to be a contender again.